Levi Flanders (1758 - 1836)

Born 25 Mar 1758 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Sargent) Flanders — married 21 Mar 1780 in Newton,Rockingham,New Hampshire,USA

Descendants

Died 6 May 1836 at age 78 in Danbury, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, USA

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Biography

Levi Flanders was born in Mar 25, 1758 in Amesbury, Massachusetts to parents Timothy Flanders and Elizabeth Fitts. He married Mary Sargent March 21, 1780 in Newton, , NH.

Levi Flanders Birth Date: 1758 of New Hampshire Volume: 55, Page Number: 220 Reference: Des. of Steph. Flanders of Salisbury, Ms., 1646. By Ellery Kirke Taylor. Priv. ptd. 1932. (v, 112p.):74^[1]

Levi served in the American Revolution as a Private for Grafton County. The Pension was: $96 00; Sums received: 1,526 93 on Sept 8, 1818.

Description of service: Massachusetts continental line

Levi Flanders passed away in May, 1836. He is buried in Danbury New Hampshire. ^[2]

Cemetery: Cem Location: Danbury NH 35

Following his death his widow filed for the pension:

Widow's Pension Application File

Second Applicant Name: Mary Flanders

Second Applicant Application State: Massachusetts

Archive Publication Number: M804, Archive Roll # 986, 79 pages

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Note the youngest son of Levi, John Flanders was killed in the battle of the Alamo, March 6, 1836.^[4]

Object

Flanders Grave Stone

Sources

1. ↑ Godfrey Memorial Library, comp.. American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.
2. ↑ Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots; Volume: 2; Serial: 10000; Volume: 2, by Hatcher, Patricia Law. Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.
3. ↑ Ancestry.com. U.S., Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010., Nara
4. ↑ http://www.thealamo.org/history/the-1836-battle/the-defenders/defenders/flanders.html

• AGBI: American Genealogical-Biographical Index, Godfrey Memorial Library, Middletown, CT, USA
• Ancestry Family Trees (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com) Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=78163112&pid=820
• Dunbar, Edith. The Flanders Family from Europe to America (The Tuttle Publishing Company, Inc., Rutland, VT, 1935) Page 124